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counties, 50,000 people in the ten counties will have been vacci- 

 nated against typhoid fever. This is about one-eighth of the 

 population of the counties treated. In several counties about 

 one-third of the population has been treated. 



Illustration No. 2. Our principal fall and winter work in 

 rural sanitation will be executing contracts for the following 

 unit of school work: For a county appropriation of $10 for 

 each school in the county the State Board of Health agrees to 

 arrange through the county school authorities and with the 

 teachers a program of consecutive health days for each school as 

 follows : Two weeks before health day the principal of the school 

 receives from the State Board of Health a batch of hand bills 

 announcing a date and program for health day. The hand bills 

 also carry an invitation to the patrons of the school to attend the 

 exercises. The teacher distributes these notices through the 

 children to the school community. The representative of the 

 State Board of Health arrives at the school at ten A. M. on 

 health day. He makes a fifteen minute talk to the children and 

 visitors on the importance of a knowledge of the laws of health. 

 He then makes a medical inspection of the pupils and gives each 

 defective child a card to its parents, notifying the parents of the 

 nature of the defect and urging the parents to see the inspector 

 after the evening exercises. The inspector mails a report of the 

 inspection to the State Board of Health, which, through a system 

 of follow-up letters, keeps in touch with the parents of the de- 

 fective children until they are treated. The inspector then 

 questions the children after the manner of the old-time spelling 

 match on a health catechism, which has been supplied to the 

 school in sufficient number at least one month prior to health 

 day. The health day exercises then adjourn until 8 P. M., at 

 which time the exercises are resumed. The evening exercises 

 consist of from three to four short illustrated lectures by the 

 inspector on the more important subjects of sanitation, inter- 

 spersed with the reading of selected compositions by the school 

 children. The last item on the program will be the awarding 

 of prizes, the first for the best knowledge of the catechism and 

 the second for the best composition. The inspector will grade, 

 score-card manner, each school on the excellence of its showing, 

 on health day. When this county unit is completed, a county 



